North Korea is a dictatorship, and elections to its rubber-stamp legislative body, the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), are conducted in the traditional communist style. Polls in March 2009, for example, involved a single list of candidates and secured turnout and approval levels approaching 100%. Such votes do not occur on a regular basis, and no election is expected in 2011-12. Should Kim Jong-il die in the next two years, it is not clear how his successor will be formally chosen-Kim Jong-il himself was "acclaimed" leader by local WPK meetings.